Friday, 24 July 2015

To back up the configuration data for an ESXi host using the vSphere PowerCLI, run the command:

Get-VMHostFirmware -VMHost "ESXi_host_IP" -BackupConfiguration -DestinationPath "location"To restore the data to an ESXi Host the build number of the new host must match the build number of the host that created the backup file. Then;1. Put the new host into maintenance mode;